Top 15 Crowdfunding Startup Investors in South Korea (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Strong Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Poland | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Software, Health Care | $223k–$26M |
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Coolidge Corner Investment
VC Fund
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3 | South Korea, United States, Belgium | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Health Care | $223k–$11M |
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Woori Bank
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea, China, Hong Kong | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $149k–$16M |
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500 Startups Korea
VC Fund
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2 | South Korea | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Financial Services, Apps, Banking | $201k–$891k |
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KDB Capital
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, India | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $500k–$39M |
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InterVest Co.
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Singapore | Series B, Series A, Series C | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology | $2.3M–$56M |
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JB Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Pakistan | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce | $74k–$16M |
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TONY Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Series A, Series B, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing | $2.9M–$63M |
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Mega Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, India, Pakistan | Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Apps, Biotechnology | $1.4M–$27M |
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Dt& Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Vietnam, United States | Series B, Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Health Care | $2k–$18M |
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Daekyo Investment
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, Hong Kong, United States | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Education, Mobile Apps | $497k–$17M |
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Korea Investment Partners
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, China | Series B, Series A, Seed | Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology | |
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Republic
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Singapore, Canada | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech | $98k–$8.5M |
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COOCON
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea | Seed, Series A | Banking, FinTech, Internet | |
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ID ventures
VC Fund
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1 | South Korea, United States, Vietnam | Series A, Series B, Seed | E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology | $762k–$200M |
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Strong Ventures is a generalist VC firm based in LA and Seoul, backing early-stage startups with a focus on Korean founders.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Poland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 347
- Round size: Seed $223k–$3.2M; Series A $1M–$10M; Series B $2.4M–$26M
- Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.3M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Winegraph — Winegraph is an SNS-based wine search and recommendation platform.
- Stan World — Stan World is a Fandom Party World where fans can party & win rewards for their Stars, 24/7.
- Minimap — The all-in-one game tracker for PC & Console. Sync achievements and trophies, manage your backlog, and analyze playtime stats. Your entire gaming history, unified.
Coolidge Corner Investment (CCVC) provides Seed and Seed+ funding to the most innovative tech startup companies in Korea. They proudly provide their portfolio companies a customized support in professional incubating, growth hacking, strategy, network and more.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $223k–$1.5M; Series A $891k–$5.4M; Series B $7.2M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Frefins — Frefins is a specialized Rental Transformation (RX) company that generates value by connecting businesses, financial institutions, and consumers.
- Plantner — PLANTNER develops environmentally friendly polymers that utilizes the controlled-release characteristics of alginate, a polymer derived from seaweed, along with natural controlled-release fertilizers to substitute current chemical products. Concurrently, the company is engaged in research and development as well as local field trials in Korea andVietnam. These innovations are directly aimed at promoting low-input sustainable agriculture. The organization is committed to tackling the unsustainable practices prevalent in conventional agriculture through the use of slow-release fertilizers, aspiring to foster eco-friendly advancements rooted in natural materials, beginning with agriculture, which is the cornerstone of the industry. In traditional agricultural settings, the significant loss of chemical fertilizers has resulted in nutrient depletion, leading to soil degradation issues such as acidification. This reduction in soil productivity compels farmers to resort to even greater quantities of chemicals to enhance yields, thereby perpetuating a detrimental cycle of increasing overuse. As a response, coated slow-release fertilizers have been introduced; however, their synthetic polymer coatings have contributed to the buildup of microplastics in the soil, harming the habitats of beneficial microorganisms and generating additional environmental challenges. To mitigate these concerns, ongoing research and development efforts are focused on substituting the conventional coating materials of slow-release fertilizers which are responsible for environmental issues like residual microplastics with alginate, a biodegradable polymer sourced from seaweed.
- Partridge Systems — Partridge Systems develops an automotive data platform that enables real-time data transfer, sharing, and structured data management. The platform offers end-to-end capabilities, including data collection, storage, and deployment pipelines for processing vehicle big data through web-based visualization tools. It allows users to access streamingdata without local downloads and supports seamless collaboration among engineers worldwide.
Woori Bank takes the lead in developing Korea's wealth and economy.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, China, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $149k–$7.4M; Series A $1.5M–$7.4M; Series B $3.7M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Fitogether — Fitogether leads the world trend with advanced data analysis technology in the industry. We provides player analysis solution OHCOACH with global top-level wearable EPTS core technology.
- EXA Infrastructure — EXA Infrastructure owns and operates the most extensive dedicated infrastructure footprint connecting Europe and North America.
- Samsung Electronics — Discover the latest in electronic & smart appliance technology with Samsung. Find the next big thing from smartphones & tablets to laptops & tvs & more.
500 Startups Korea is a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Apps, Banking
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $201k–$891k
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mommom — Mommom gathers and analyzes online meta data, as well as a list of national items categorized by objective group. Mommom is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
- Bigwavv — Bigwavv is an all-in-one platform that helps people navigate end-of-life and after-death issues. The company is based in Seoul, South Korea.
- Medb Korea — Medb Korea is a medical consumer, hospital, and pharmacy-focused online medical care and prescription drug delivery platform.. Medb Korea is located in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
KDB Capital Corp. operates as a credit specialized and corporate restructuring company in South Korea.It provides equipment leasing services for various properties, including machineries, ships, IT equipments, medical equipments, automation equipments, transportation machineries, educational research equipments, construction machineries, heavy,and other equipments for social services.The company provides venture capital for companies operating in various areas, including computer and related components, semiconductors and equipment, telecommunication and accessories, software, multimedia, precision chemistry, environment, biotechnology, content/fashion, mechatronics, and entertainment.In addition, the company offers services to help distressed companies, including merger and acquisition, business consulting, merger and acquisition loan, rescheduling, acquisition of stocks, operating loan fund for restructuring, and consulting for corporate reinforcement; funding services, such as working capital, project financing, and equipment funding; financing via acquiring account receivables from corporations; and credit card services.The company was established in 1972 and is headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. KDB Capital Corp. is subsidiary of The Korea Development Bank.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 122
- Round size: Seed $500k–$15M; Series A $1.5M–$15M; Series B $5.3M–$39M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Unastella — Unastella is an aerospace company developing human spaceflight technologies, including launch vehicles and suborbital tourism systems. The company focuses on advancing reusable rocket technology and future space travel infrastructure for civilian space exploration missions. Unastella aims to support the growth of private human spaceflight andnext-generation aerospace innovation.
- Asteromorph — We are an AI for Science lab in Seoul. Our mission is to accelerate scientific advancements through the pursuit of superintelligence.
- Coxwave — Coxwave provides product analytics and observability for AI applications. The Skylight platform instruments LLM prompts, responses, context, and user interactions via SDKs and ingestion APIs. It aggregates metrics such as quality, latency, token usage, and cost, and presents dashboards to monitor trends and detect regressions. Teams use it tocollect human feedback, build evaluation datasets, and compare prompt or model variants before and after releases. Tracing links events across sessions and workflows, helping correlate outcomes with inputs and application state. Integrations connect to common LLM providers, orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines, allowing data to flow into existing analytics stacks and workflows.
Creating Innovative Values for Ventures. Knowledgeable & Experienced Professionals. Leading Venture Capital Investor in Korea
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 140
- Round size: Series A $2.3M–$24M; Series B $2.6M–$45M; Series C $11M–$56M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Upstage — Upstage AI develops artificial intelligence technologies focused on large language models and document processing systems designed to support enterprise workflows. Its platform includes tools that convert unstructured data such as PDFs, scans, and emails into structured, machine-readable formats, enabling downstream analysis and automation. Thecompany also provides models like its Solar LLM, which are optimized for tasks such as text generation, information extraction, and question answering within business environments. Its solutions are applied across industries including finance, healthcare, insurance, and manufacturing to handle tasks like document parsing, data extraction, and workflow automation. Additionally, its services can be deployed through APIs, cloud environments, or on-premise systems to integrate with existing enterprise infrastructure.
- WIRobotics — My First-Ever Robot
- Flexell Space — FLEXELL SPACE primarily focuses on the development and manufacturing of space solar cells, aiming to provide differentiated products for our customers in the space industry
Investment Firm
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $74k–$2.2M; Series A $1.4M–$11M; Series B $3.7M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TEUIDA — Learn and speak Korean and Japanese app
- ZigTruck — ZigTruck is a comprehensive and user-friendly online platform designed specifically for buying and selling used trucks. It connects truck owners, dealers, and potential buyers, offering a wide variety of trucks, from light-duty to heavy-duty models, along with detailed specifications, pricing information, and customer reviews
- Mediark — Mediark compiles a comprehensive summary of a patient's symptoms, including key details such as the nature, duration, severity, and progression of each symptom, to ensure that medical staff receive accurate and timely information for effective diagnosis and treatment planning.
TONY Investment is a Venture Capital that invests in companies of all stages, from startups to scale-ups.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $3M–$15M; Series A $2.9M–$63M; Series B $4M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MOPLAT — MOPLAT designs and manufactures electronic components used in mobility devices for automobiles.
- Dnotitia — Dnotitia is a pioneering AI (Artificial Intelligence) company driving innovative value by integrating AI and data. Founded in October 2023, Dnotitia specializes in developing; Seahorse, a high-performance vector database powered by its proprietary Vector Data Processing Units (VDPU), and Mnemos, a cutting-edge service solution for Large LanguageModels (LLMs). The company also leads the development of sLMs (Small Language Models) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems, crucial for advancing generative AI technologies and positioning itself at the forefront of AI technology.
- ActionPower — ActionPower is an AI-based startup company that offers speech recognition and natural language processing technology services.
Innovative and Passionate Value Creating Venture Capital
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, India, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Series A $1.4M–$5.9M; Series B $3.7M–$27M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Balaan — Balaan is a platform that allows you to get the latest luxury goods in just 3 days at a lower price than overseas fasting by contract with European local boutique
- Modern Toy — Modern Toy is a character toy developing company that manufactures and distributes toys for infants, girls, and boys.
- Robo Arete — Robo Arete is a completely automated and robotics enables F&B servicing company with restaurants and takeaways.
Dt& Investment brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of Venture Capital.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, Vietnam, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $2k–$4.5M; Series A $1.5M–$11M; Series B $2.7M–$18M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ettifos — Ettifos provides flexible, reliable, and innovative V2X solutions to enable communication between all stakeholders on the road.
- Inocras — Unlock the potential of a Whole Genome Sequencing Test with Inocras. Transforming diagnosis and treatment for cancer and rare diseases.
- HANCOM InSpace — Inspace is an aerospace and geospatial intelligence company specializing in satellite ground systems and AI-based Earth observation services. It develops platforms for processing and analyzing satellite, drone, SAR, optical, and infrared imagery to support defense, environment, and commercial monitoring applications. The company also provides droneoperation systems and space data solutions, turning complex geospatial data into actionable intelligence for government and enterprise users.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: South Korea, Hong Kong, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 60
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$13M; Series A $1.5M–$8.7M; Series B $497k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MOAIS — MOAIS develops a smartphone AI solution that analyzes golf swing problem and offers a lesson solution. It is an on-device AI optimized for smart phones, has a video pose estimation, video segmentation, video classification, video object detection, and image processing of golf swing video.
- UCONNEC — UConnec is a marketing platform that connects YouTube influencers with advertiser brands.
- Redrob — McKinley & Rice is a software development and outsourcing company.
Korea Investment Partners (KIP) is a leading venture capital & private equity firm that has over 30 years of experience in providing venture capital to bold and innovative entrepreneurs who want to change the world. Korea Investment Partners invests in leading pioneers like Kakao(KOSDAQ:035720), Naver(KRX:035420), YGEntertainment(KOSDAQ:122870), Bodyfriend, Osstem Implant(KOSDAQ:048260), Doubleu Games(KOSDAQ:192080) and Didi Chuxing. KIP manages over 20 venture and private equity funds with US$1.8 billion in total assets under management. The company operates globally from its Seoul headquarters office with other locations in Shanghai, Beijing, and Sunnyvale.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 239
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Petpharma — Petpharma is an Operator of an e-commerce platform intended to provide veterinary medicines.
- Wello — Wello is a government business solution that offers a natural language processing-based business recommendation-application-management service.
- Indent — Indent is a provider of a video review service platform that helps sellers increase their sales by producing purchase reviews from actual buyers.
Republic gives people the opportunity to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startup, real estate, crypto, and video game investments. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, and connected world, Republic has facilitated over $500 million in investments from over one million members of the global community. With a globalteam in six countries, Republic is backed by Galaxy Digital, The Motley Fool, Binance, Naspers, AngelList, and more.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 110
- Round size: Seed $200k–$8.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1.5M; Equity Crowdfunding $98k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
- XTAO — Publicly traded Bittensor company. Bridging TradFi and TAO. (TSXV: XTAO.U | OTC: XTAIF)
- Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies operates in the digital asset and blockchain technology sector by providing infrastructure and services for cryptocurrency mining and related activities. The company uses immersion cooling methods to host and operate mining hardware for Bitcoin and supports third-party equipment hosting, infrastructure management andequipment sales. Bitmine also engages in self-mining of digital assets and offers advisory services tied to digital asset treasury strategies and has expanded its focus to include broader crypto ecosystem services. Its data center offerings encompass power, rack space, environmental management systems, connectivity and monitoring software for mining operations. The company’s business integrates infrastructure support with asset accumulation and consulting for clients navigating cryptocurrency networks and mining markets.
COOCON is a business information service provider company.
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- Industry: Banking, FinTech, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: South Korea
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Finda — Finda is an online financial comparison platform across various financial products.
- forSPACElab — forSPACElab is food & restaurant data analysis & AI company, offers optimal data performance evaluation solutions & consulting of AX.
ID ventures is an IP based venture capital firm.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Health Care, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: South Korea, United States, Vietnam
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $762k–$200M; Series A $2.2M–$4.9M; Series B $1.8M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Flatdis — Flatis is a corporation that specializes in naval engine control equipment and ship maintenance.
- Cave Duck — Caveduck is an AI character chat platform where you can create, customize, and talk to virtual characters across web and mobile (iOS and Android). It focuses on AI character chats rather than general-purpose Q&A, letting you pick or design personas with specific traits, backstories, and moods.
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